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Lily J. Potter (née Evans) is one of the overarching protagonists of the Harry Potter franchise.
She was an idealistic, gentle, and caring muggle-born witch who was the best and only true friend of Severus Snape, the wife of James Potter, and mother of the protagonist Harry Potter. She would sadly be killed at a young age by Lord Voldemort, when he broke into their house to kill their newborn son who was prophesied to defeat him. While James was instantly killed, Lily sacrificed herself to defeat Voldemort, saving the Wizarding world/ending the First Wizarding War and making her son Harry the legendary "Boy Who Lived", ensuring the prophecy would come to fruition.
What Makes Her Love Exalted[]
Both Versions[]
- She was the best and only true friend of Severus Snape, being the only person who treated him with kindness and compassion in Hogwarts and remaining friends with him even when he was sorted into the notorious Slytherin house. She served as a good influence on Snape against the bigotry of his Death Eater family and friends.
- Despite the fact that her sister Petunia called her a freak repeatedly for being a witch and treated her terribly, she still loved and cared for her sister, defending her from Snape and wished to reconcile with her sister.
- Unlike the rest of Gryffindor, she never held any prejudice towards the Slytherin house, having a friendly relationship with and being one of the favorite students of the Head of the Slytherin House/Potions Master Horace Slughorn and remaining best friends with Snape after he had been sorted into Slytherin.
- She befriends James Potter and the Marauders after influencing them to grow out of their bullying ways and became friends with all of them (including Peter Pettigrew), falling in love with James and marrying him.
- She feels deep regret after James and her sister’s fiancé Vernon got into an argument (even though it wasn’t her fault in any way) during their first meeting, bursting into tears when Petunia and Vernon stormed out and motivating James to promise to her that he would make things right with Vernon as soon as possible. She would try to maintain contact with her sister and reconcile (although Petunia refused and didn’t attend Lily’s wedding), sending her an announcement of Harry’s birth to her sister as their last form of correspondence (as Petunia threw the letter in the garbage).
- She joins the Order of the Phoenix to combat Voldemort and the Death Eaters who started the First Wizarding War to conquer the Wizarding World and wipe out muggle-borns like her.
- She is the sole reason why Snape would turn on Voldemort and informed Dumbledore of Voldemort’s plan to kill her, James, and Harry as Voldemort correctly believed Harry to be the prophesied chosen one.
- She trusts Peter Pettigrew to be Potter family’s secret-keeper on the word of Sirius Black despite barely knowing Pettigrew unlike her husband.
- She affectionately calls Pettigrew “wormy” and when he came to visit her house, she is sympathetic and feels concerned that he seems “down”.
- She is close friends with her neighbor, the British witch, and the great aunt of Gellert Grindelwald, Bathilda Bagshot, complimenting Bagshot as an incredibly sweet woman and for her fascinating tales about Dumbledore formerly being friends with Gellert Grindelwald
- She sends a letter to Sirius Black, thanking him for his birthday present for the one-year old Harry as it was Harry’s favorite present, framing a picture for Sirius to see Harry on the toy broomstick Sirius got him and she excitedly told Sirius about her meetings with Pettigrew and Bathilda Bagshot mentioned above.
- She sacrifices herself to defeat Lord Voldemort when he attacked the Potter home, placing a loving sacrifice protection on an infant Harry so that Voldemort tried to kill him, the killing curse rebounded back on him, destroying Voldemort’s body and forcing him into hiding, saving not just Harry but the entire Wizarding world and ending the First Wizarding War. Her sacrifice made Harry the legendary Boy Who Lived and allowed the prophecy to come into fruition, making her responsible for all the events of the series as without her, Voldemort would have won and none of the events of the Harry Potter series would have happened.
- Her memory is the sole reason for Snape’s redemption and him agreeing to play the key role in Dumbledore’s plans to protect Harry and take down Voldemort when he returned decades later.
- She is the first spirit to appear when Harry used the Resurrection stone, reaching out her hand to Harry to comfort him, telling him how brave he has been and when Harry asked why she and the Marauders were here, she revealed to him that they never left and told Harry they would always stay close to him in the last moment of the scene before they disappeared.
- Although she is very serious, she never darkens the story.
Exclusive to Book Version[]
- She repeatedly stands up for Severus Snape to James and the Marauder's bullying and despite her popularity and the rest of friends telling her not to associate with Snape, she still remained best friends with him and didn’t become narcissistic, defending Snape for years.
- While she accepts the cheers of students when she gets accepted into Gryffindor, she is sad that she isn’t with Snape and turned back to smile at him when he was sad about it as well.
- Although she initially doesn’t like James and the Marauders for being arrogant bullies, she still defended them from Snape by pointing out that James saved Snape’s life and asks Snape to stop obsessing over them when he tried to use them to deflect from his own Slytherin colleagues unethical actions.
- She calls out Snape’s Slytherin “friends” after they attacked a student named Mary MacDonald using black magic and told Snape that it wasn’t just humor but creepy and messed up, while still assuring Snape that they were best friends but that his company was badly influencing him.
- She stands up for Snape when James Potter and the Marauders bully him by turning Snape upside down and revealing his underwear, being the only person who didn’t laugh and makes James let Snape go and take off Sirius’ curse that rendered Snape rigid and unable to move.
- While she is (understandably) upset after Snape called her a "filthy little mudblood" right after she saves him, she still defends Snape from James, telling James that she doesn’t want him to force Snape to apologize when James threatened Snape to and still called James out for bullying Snape and others and for being just as bad.
- She, along with her husband, defy Voldemort three times during the course of the First Wizarding War which was a part of the prophecy about the Chosen One.
- After Voldemort attacks their home and killed James, she refuses to step aside from Harry even though Voldemort offered to spare her life.
- She repeatedly tries to reason with Voldemort and begged him to have mercy on Harry and take her instead before Voldemort ultimately killed her and she made her loving sacrifice.
Exclusive to Film Version[]
- After James pushes her to the ground and dropped her books to the ground to get her attention as young kids, she has no hate or anger towards him.
- She gives Horace Slughorn a present as a token of appreciation, giving him a bowl with a petal that floated and turned into a fish when it sank, which Slughorn named Francis.
- She is known as an “uncommonly kind woman” who sees the best in others even when they can’t see it in themselves, supports Remus and was there for him at a time when no one else was as Remus told Harry how he recognizes him due to his relationship with Lily and seeing her eyes in him.
External Links[]
- Lily Potter on the Heroes Wiki
- Lily Potter on the Pure Good Wiki